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  1. Title: Havana, Cuba, 1739 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the city and harbour of Havana : situated on the island of Cuba in 23d: 10m. nth. latitude & in 292d: 15m longitude from the meridian of Teneriff, by Thomas Milton much improved & altered according to the genuine plan of Captain James Rentone ; J. Mynde sculpt. It was published by S. Harding ... R. Amey ... W.H. Toms, Dec. 10, 1739. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'NAD 1927 Cuba Norte' coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by shading and pictorially. Relief shown by shading and soundings. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  2. Title: Europe at the time of the Crusades

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Copyright 1916 Denoyer-Geppert Company. 74 x 107 Centimeters Scale approximately 1:5,000,000) 1 inch to 80 miles General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Europe after the great war : approximate boundaries, January 1920

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Copyright 1916 Denoyer-Geppert Company. 75 x 103 Centimeters Scale 1:5,000,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Rhode Island, 1795 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The state of Rhode Island, compiled from the surveys and observations of Caleb Harris by Harding Harris ; J. Smither, sculp. It was published in 1795 for Carey's American atlas. Scale [ca. 1:281,600]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, county and town boundaries and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  5. Title: Map of part of the Desert of Atacama (Bolivia)

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Major roads and railways are shown. "Dry lake-beds are coloured brown." From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 47, (1877), pp. 250-53; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.47 1877

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  6. Title: A map of the State of Rhode Island : taken mainly from surveys by Caleb Harris

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    Summary: Shows: international and administrative boundaries, railways, roads (2 categories), canals. 54 x 41 centimeters Scale, 1:177,408 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: A Map of Coromandel, shewing the Seat of War on that Coast

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    Summary: Scale 1:1,077,120 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: Charta öfwer Stockholms stads belägenhet, 1750 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Charta öfwer Stockholms stads belägenhet. It was published in 1750. Scale ca. 1:2,500. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 34N (EPSG: 32634) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  9. Title: Sweden and Finland, 1747 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Svea ock Gota riken med Finland ock Norland afritade i Stockholm, ?r 1747, G. Biurman sculp. It was published in 1747. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. Covers portions of Sweden and Finland, and surrounding countries in outline. Map in Swedish.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset map of Norrland.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  10. Title: Hindoostan

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:15,000,000 (E 68°09'00"--E 92°41'00"/N 32°53'00"--N 6°45'00")."Published April 3, 1812 by Wm Darton...58 Holborn Hill." Prime meridian: Greenwich. 23 x 27 centimeters Scale approximately 1:15,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  11. Title: London and Westminster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, anno Dom., 1563

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye-view. William Darton was located at 58 Holborn Hill after 1810; cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers. Includes text, index to points of interest, and illus. of notable buildings.

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  12. Title: A map of the United States of America agreeable to the peace of 1783

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Guthries new system of geography." Shows provincial boundaries, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers and lakes, a few forts and place-names.

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  13. Title: Rhode Island, 1795 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the state of Rhode Island, taken mainly from surveys by Caleb Harris ; Harding Harris, delineavt. ; Saml. Hill, sculpt. It was published in 1795 by Carter & Wilkinson. Scale [ca. 1:160,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, county and town boundaries and more. Relief shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  14. Title: Fossa Caroli M. ab Almone in Radantiam pro conjunctione Rheni et Danubii

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    Summary: Map of the Fossa Carolina or Karlsgraben, a navigable channel begun in 793, which connected the Swabian Rezat and Altmühl rivers in Bavaria. Relief shown pictorially. In lower margin: Pars III. 11. From: Kurze und gründliche Anleitung zu der alten und mittlern Geographie. Nürnberg : Tyroff, 1765.

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  15. Title: Aria Attol

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:70,000] (E 96°45'--E 96°59'/S 11°47'--S 12°15'). Relief shown by soundings. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 38 x 62 centimeters Scale [1:70,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  16. Title: [British Indian Ocean Territory]

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 71°--E 73°/S 5°--S 7°). Relief shown by soundings. Title supplied by cataloger. Both maps include costal profiles. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 23 x 26 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  17. Title: Het Eyland Diego Rais

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 71°--E 73°/S 5°--S 7°). Relief shown by soundings. Second map depicts The Dangerous Shoals of S. BrandaÃÉo and lists the location; could not match this to any known geography, though a Vingboons map on page 376 of Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie volume 5 (from 1665-1670) shows"S. BrandaÃÉo" to the NE of Rodrigues Island. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. 38 x 62 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  18. Title: Pas caart van de Cocos-Eylanden

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:220,000] (E 96°45'--E 96°59'/S 11°47'--S 12°15'). Relief shown by soundings. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753. Contents: Coastal profiles: Aldus vertoont het Noordelijkste van de Cocos Eijlanden ... -- Aldus Vertoonenzig drie van de Zuijdelijke Cocos Eijlanden. 23 x 26 centimeters Scale [1:220,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  19. Title: Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Greenwich and Washington prime meridians. Scale approximately 1:2,100,000

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  20. Title: Historical United States County Boundaries, 1890

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    Summary: This polygon shapefile contains county boundaries for the United States in 1890. Attributes include county and state names as well as FIPS identification numbers and county area estimates. Territories enumerated by the U.S. Census are also included. This layer is part of a collection of historical United States county boundary files (HUSCO), from each decade ranging from 1790-1999. This layer is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. Earle, Carville, Changyong Cao, John Heppen, and Samuel Otterstrom. 1999. The Historical United States County Boundary Files 1790-1999. Geoscience Publications. Louisiana State University

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